Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals are ostensibly a rap group, but it feels reductive to call God’s Black Tears a rap album. Terming it “experimental” is nebulous to the point of insult. The artists ...

France’s National Assembly has formally approved on Monday, July 7, the return of the sacred Djidji Ayôkwé drum to Ivory ...

France's parliament on Monday approved the return of the Djidji Ayokwe, a prized drum, to Ivory Coast, more than a century after it was taken from the Ebrie tribe by French troops in 1916. The large ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The pavilion, constructed with sustainably sourced timber, was a collaborative effort involving students and alumni from ...

Morgan State University has become the first HBCU to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale with “ReCall & Response,” a pavilion shaped like a “talking drum” that honors the ...

In Africa, for example, often considered the cradle of drumming traditions, instruments like the djembe, dunun, and the talking drum played central roles in daily life, religious rites, and oral ...

Osei said the Agoro African Drum Beat Circle brings together a mix of instruments to celebrate West African drumming, such as the djembe (a goblet-shaped hand drum from West Africa), talking drum ...

It's believed the drums themselves are praising the orishas." Praise poems, Mason told me, are a major part of West African culture.

The Talking Drum is one of the most sacred instruments of West Africa. Shaped like an hourglass, the drum has a unique melodic sound which means it can imitate the tones of language and in this ...